American Education Threat To National Security

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[Adre]

Santorum probably has the answers to this problem. He has a unique understanding of the college experience, and will stamp out snobbism wherever he finds it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Oh well. This is a problem we seem to want as sad as that sounds.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

America is too invested in equal outcomes, and the equal outcome is gonna be poverty as our kids settle for jobs toting nightsoil and luggage for the elites.

 

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[Sean Renaud]

Equal outcomes in school equals mediocrity, precisely what we have.

Oh come off it. That isn't happening in our schools. The problem is largely our culture and that's unlikely to change in the near future.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Oh come off it. That isn't happening in our schools. The problem is largely our culture and that's unlikely to change in the near future.

Instant gratification, rampant consumerism (kids expecting...needing the lastest and greatest), and lack of parental responsibility.

We became a country of people worried more about the latest model in cars, the newest IPhone/IPad, who's winning on Dancing with the Stars/American Idol than we were about our kids and their education.

 

[Dribble]

Of course our education is failing...it has been for 50 years. All you have to do is look at Vette and BB.

 

[Raidho]

Equal outcomes in school equals mediocrity, precisely what we have.

I'd agree with that. I'd also go so far to say that a true education, that is, teaching kids to think critically, would pose a threat to national security unparalleled by any other source.

 

[koalabear]

failure to prepare its young people for a globalized world

hahahahaha......the globalized world is doing so great.

 

[Saint Peter]

Well, maybe we should cut more funding.


That should help.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Spidy, Merc, will deny:



Education report: Shortcomings of US schools pose national security threat
Former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein cochaired a task force that released its report Tuesday.


By Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer / March 20, 2012


WASHINGTON
Nearly 30 years after the landmark education report “A Nation at Risk,” a new report finds that America’s failure to prepare its young people for a globalized world is now so grave that it poses a national security threat.

Some of the key factors that the report cites in linking education shortcomings and a weakened national security: insufficient preparation of children for the highly technical jobs that both the private sector and the military increasingly need to fill, scant and declining foreign-language education, and a weakened “national cohesiveness” as a result of an under-educated and unemployable poor population.

“Educational failure puts the United States’ future economic prosperity, global position, and physical safety at risk,” says the report, the result of an independent task force cochaired by former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein.

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Noting that the “dominant power of the 21st century will depend on human capital,” the report concludes that “the failure to produce that capital will undermine American security.”

Ms. Rice on Tuesday zeroed in on signs of faltering national cohesion as at the “heart” of the vast and complex issues addressed in the report.

Education is “the glue that keeps us together,” she said at an event in Washington Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, which sponsored the task force. A factor weakening that glue, she said, is the “perception of a smaller and smaller group that is advancing in America.” She added, “If we are not one nation, we cannot defend one nation.”

The report cites a series of indicators of America’s educational weaknesses – from US students’ disappointing placement on international rankings of math and science competencies, to recent reports out of the Defense Department that three-fourths of young Americans are not qualified to join the armed forces (although physical conditions such as obesity, and not just educational shortcomings, play a role in that number).

Rest of disaster here:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educat...s-of-US-schools-pose-national-security-threat

Link to Bloomberg's version:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...alls-education-gravest-u-s-security-risk.html

I'd agree. Unless we start investing in education we're going to be in trouble.

 

[Raidho]

Well, maybe we should cut more funding.


That should help.

Cutting you always relieves my angst.

So, in theory, you're right.

 

[Saint Peter]

Cutting you always relieves my angst.

So, in theory, you're right.

Now he takes it

in the behind.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Garbage in, garbage out.

 

[Saint Peter]

"I could never do math."

 

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[bra_man69]

Then you tell me why we've lowered our educational standards for both teachers and students. Tell me why there are teachers on the job who aren't proficient in their field of study? Tell me why high school graduates are less prepared today than ever before? Tell me we haven't decided as a society to accept less and lower our standards. What else can account for the poor product put forth by our education system?

Tell you why repeat unions unions unions

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Then you tell me why we've lowered our educational standards for both teachers and students. Tell me why there are teachers on the job who aren't proficient in their field of study? Tell me why high school graduates are less prepared today than ever before? Tell me we haven't decided as a society to accept less and lower our standards. What else can account for the poor product put forth by our education system?

What standards have we lowered? As we more towards common core standards we're making them tougher.

Where are there teachers not certified in their field of study, and what background do you have to assess them as such?

Why are you saying high school graduates are less prepared than they were X number of years ago.

Look, you'll get no argument from me that there are kids whose needs are not being met. But you've got no data to prove any of your assertions. You've simply heard someone who has a political affiliation, and believed them without doing any independent research on your own. That's downright frightening.

 

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[Lancecastor]

A Copy & Paste thread talking about how people don't know how to think for themselves.

Priceless!

 

[bra_man69]

You understand the problem Sean doesn't, there's a difference.

Hey vetteman ssssshhhhh don't tell them but it's just another thing the government has failed at.
next is health care.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Spidy, Merc, will deny:



Education report: Shortcomings of US schools pose national security threat
Former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein cochaired a task force that released its report Tuesday.


By Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer / March 20, 2012


WASHINGTON
Nearly 30 years after the landmark education report “A Nation at Risk,” a new report finds that America’s failure to prepare its young people for a globalized world is now so grave that it poses a national security threat.

Some of the key factors that the report cites in linking education shortcomings and a weakened national security: insufficient preparation of children for the highly technical jobs that both the private sector and the military increasingly need to fill, scant and declining foreign-language education, and a weakened “national cohesiveness” as a result of an under-educated and unemployable poor population.

“Educational failure puts the United States’ future economic prosperity, global position, and physical safety at risk,” says the report, the result of an independent task force cochaired by former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein.

RECOMMENDED: Threats to US – three surprises

Noting that the “dominant power of the 21st century will depend on human capital,” the report concludes that “the failure to produce that capital will undermine American security.”

Ms. Rice on Tuesday zeroed in on signs of faltering national cohesion as at the “heart” of the vast and complex issues addressed in the report.

Education is “the glue that keeps us together,” she said at an event in Washington Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, which sponsored the task force. A factor weakening that glue, she said, is the “perception of a smaller and smaller group that is advancing in America.” She added, “If we are not one nation, we cannot defend one nation.”

The report cites a series of indicators of America’s educational weaknesses – from US students’ disappointing placement on international rankings of math and science competencies, to recent reports out of the Defense Department that three-fourths of young Americans are not qualified to join the armed forces (although physical conditions such as obesity, and not just educational shortcomings, play a role in that number).

Rest of disaster here:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educat...s-of-US-schools-pose-national-security-threat

Link to Bloomberg's version:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...alls-education-gravest-u-s-security-risk.html

Most gradeschoolers and high schoolers are too busy dabbling in rap music, movies, and mindless pop culture and celebrity worship than to give a shit about education and future careers.

Most high school students can't name the first president or a country that starts with the letter "U". The education system isn't broken, the mindless sheep mentality of US children and youth are to blame.

http://www.filehurricane.com/viewerthumbnails/1114200985142AM_TodaysYouth.jpg

 

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[koalabear]

The study itself testifies to the substandard education our kids are receiving, 75% can't qualify for the armed forces. Albeit some of that is due to poor physical qualifications but much is simply poor education.

I've posted ad nauseum about the big teacher's union battles to resist competency tests here. We've seen educational decline over the years. As a business manager for many years I've seen hundreds of examples of poor education on the part of California high school graduates, and watched it get progressively worse over that period. Any business executive will testify to the truth of it too. Not too long ago Steve Jobs warned Obama that American education was "crippled by union work rules."

Teacher's benefit's are most important, well right after sex with Students.